Category: Inspiration

I’m starting this off by saying I just loved and was so incredibly inspired by JMatt’s story challenge he created to bring awareness to mental health. I’m a huge advocate of mental health, and it was a fantastic growth opportunity for me to show that side of me on Instagram. I …

Regrets are never fun to talk about, but are we truly human if we don’t have a few regrets in our life? I dug a little deeper this week to uncover a few of my major travel regrets, some of them are admittedly painful. Sometimes as travelers (regardless of how …

Appreciation post for a city I grew up visiting once, sometimes twice a year: Alpena Michigan! My mother grew up in Alpena, which has a population of around 10,000. She always said it was a town where everybody knew everyone… meaning her and her siblings couldn’t get away with anything! …

From doing my own personal traveling to being connected to various travelers around the world through the blogging community, I’ve learned quite a bit about the world around me. It ignites the passion for traveling inside of me more, but all of this knowledge has also taught me to appreciate …

Dear Experienced Travelers, I hope you realize how blessed you are. Blessed with the financial ability, blessed with many vacation days, blessed with a fantastic ability to research and budget (and follow that budget), and even blessed with living somewhere so close to other countries (talking to you, Europeans). I …

I’m starting off this post with an honorable mention because I was incredibly inspired by Kylie from Between England and Iowa who created a 30 before 30 bucket list challenge back in December. She’s been fortunate to do so many other exciting things in her life, she decided to challenge …

Does travel conquer fear? What an interesting sentiment. If you’ve followed me for a bit (or have talked to me), you’ll know that my blog’s goal is to be relatable, realistic….and funny. I think I have a solid handle on the funny part (okay, that’s debatable), so I’d like to focus …

Growing up, I was an extremely picky eater. My lovely (yet struggling) mom tried everything up her sleeve, and the only thing that worked was cutting cheese into fun shapes to get me to eat them. I know, it sounds a bit much, though it’s one of the things I …

The first time abroad to a new continent is a memorable experience for anyone. My first time abroad was to Iceland at 19 years old, and I was in awe of everything! For me, it was truly a magical moment; I’m pretty sure I was high on pure excitement. Even just …

Travel: it’s exciting, it’s interesting, and it can teach us so many things. Since traveling encompasses so many things; it makes sense that dating a girl who travels will offer the same experiences right? If you come across a girl who travels (or a guy), here are a few things …